The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-28
HARDLY APPROPRIATE.
A Name Not in Character with the Bus
ness Carried on Inside.

A Name Not in Character with the BUNS'
ness Carried on Inside.
There is a saloon out on the West
Side, the proprietor of which has
named it 1.-The Golden Rule" And
the fact that the incident l am about
to relate occurred in front of its por-
tails is no more strange than that its
owner should see the fitness az tue
name which he gave to his gin-mill-
Across its glittering and always
highly-polished, plate glass windows,
in letters of spotless white. were the
words which would indicate that all
who entered there would be dealt by
on a principle the fairest and squarest
ever laid down for the guidance of
human conduct.
1t was early morning when a seedy,
battered and rum-sOaked bum, Who
had, doubtless, passed the night in
some stairway, came shuffling alOng-
evidently hunting for morning,
dram. As he instinctively paused be-
fore the entrance to the Golden Rule,
and, while he was gazing wistfully at
its interior, and, perhaps, cogitating
upon the chances of being able to beg
drink from the bartender, his eyes
fell upon the big, white letters in the.
windows. Slowly he spelled out the
words, and then, removing his bat
tered hat, he began to scratch his head,
gazing, meanwhile, intently at the let
tiers, and, apparently, lost in the depths
of his profound meditations.
Finally he calculated: "Well, Pm
bowed, if I don't remember suihin'
bout them yer words, but DANCED if [
kin ies now git 'em somehow straight
ened out in my head" He replaced
his hat where it belonged and thrust
ing his hands deep into his pantaloon-
pockets, he stood as if spell-bound by
the words which had, evidently by
the merest accident, caught his atten-
ton, but had strangely enough
aroused something in his memory
which had lain dormant perhaps from
the days of his childhood. At any
rate, in trying to get at the meaning
of the words before him he had at
tempted what was for him very
difficult task. Slowly but deter
minedly he wrestled with the prob
lem, till at length a light broke over
his face and he almost shouted as he
exclaimed: "By gum, I've got it!'
Then talking to himself, he continued:
81 remembers now at when 1 wos q
young un l went wunse to place
whur there wos a bloke whut talked
bout the golden rule. He said it wus
ter allus treat tother fellars jes like
you'd like ter be treGted. "
Here he stopped and again medi-
tated. An instant later he had started
for the door, saying to himself: 'This
fellar what keeps this saloon must be
one O. them Sunday-school blokes his
SELF
But, alas! for human weakness; alas!
for human cussedness-fo despite the
poor fellows painful and laborious cal
culations his conclusions were wrong.
radically wrong. 1t was not twenty
minutes after he had crossed the
threshold of the Golden Rule before he
came out again, and that very hurried
ly. In fact his exit from the door to
the curb of the sidewalk was one
mighty leap, by which he just escaped
being hit with huge rubber spittoon,
which the irate Samaritan" ON the
inside had hurled after him. The I'M
fortunate searcher for a morning eye
opener continued on his way. but as he
went off / caught something which,
put into ordinarily good English, was
as follows: "ThaG saloon-keeper, like
a great many other people, has sign
on the outside of his place not in
harmony with or properly Interpreting
the character of the business carried
on inside. Ed. r. Pritckard, IN dr.
kdnsGw Traveller.
YOUNG MAN! if you would avoid the